Comparison

Tip Tracker vs ShiftSlip

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
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Tip Tracker

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The tip tracker that respects your money: no ads, no account, and your history is never held hostage. Tillside is a shift-and-tips ledger for hospitality workers. Log a shift in about thirty seconds — cash tips, card tips, tip-out, hours, wage — and see what you actually made tonight, and what that works out to per hour. WHAT YOU ACTUALLY EARNED Every shift shows net tips after tip-out, total earnings including your wage, and your real hourly rate. One calculation, used everywhere in the app, so the number on a shift always matches the number on the week. THIRTY SECONDS, THEN BED The new-shift sheet opens in one tap from anywhere and pre-fills from your last shift at that job — same start, same hours, same wage. The first field is already focused. Save, and a summary tells you the night's total and your rate. TIP-OUT DONE FOR YOU Set a rule per job — a flat amount, a percentage of tips, or a percentage of sales — and it fills itself in on every shift. Always editable when the night was unusual. YOUR BEST NIGHTS, IN NUMBERS Insights shows your hourly rate by weekday, a twelve-week trend, your best and worst shifts, and this month against last. If Saturdays pay better than Fridays, you will see it. BUILT SO YOU CANNOT LOSE IT Everything is stored on your phone and mirrored to your own private iCloud automatically. Delete the app, reinstall it, and your history comes back. There is no account, so there is no account to lose. It works fully offline; sync catches up on its own later. EXPORT EVERYTHING, ALWAYS One tap sends your complete history as a CSV to Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets — every shift you have ever logged, not just the recent ones. Useful at tax time, useful the day you decide to leave. A CALCULATOR THAT IS JUST A CALCULATOR Bill, tip percentage, split between however many of you. No sign-in, no interruption, no upsell. ALSO IN THE APP • Calendar month view, shaded by what you earned • Home-screen widget: week to date, last shift, one-tap log • An optional nightly reminder, per job, off until you ask for it • A week-in-review card at the start of your week • Multiple jobs, each with its own color, wage and tip-out rule • Full VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support TILLSIDE PRO Pro opens your full history, unlimited jobs and Insights. Logging shifts, exporting your data and the calculator are never behind it. No ads. Not now, not later. This is a record of your money, not a place to sell you something at one in the morning. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tillside.co/privacy

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ShiftSlip

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ShiftSlip is the notebook you fill in when the shift ends. Hours. Cash tips. Charge tips. What you tipped out. Four numbers, one screen, about fifteen seconds - and ShiftSlip tells you what that shift really paid you per hour once the tip-out came off. WHAT IT ANSWERS • What did that shift actually pay me, per hour, after the tip-out? • Is Tuesday lunch worth picking up, or worth trading away? • What did this pay period come to, and does it match my paycheque? • Where is the record my employer and my tax preparer are going to ask for? THE TIP-OUT, DONE PROPERLY Set a rule per job - a percentage of tips, a percentage of sales, a flat amount, or a figure you type - and split it across the bar, the bussers, the host and the runners by name. ShiftSlip resolves it, shows every share, and never quietly rounds a cent away. THE DAILY TIP RECORD IRS Publication 531 tells tipped employees to write down, every workday: cash tips, charge tips, the value of noncash tips, and the tips they paid out - and to give the month's report to their employer by the 10th of the next month. ShiftSlip keeps exactly those fields, day by day, with your employer and business name on it and the monthly total at the foot. It also keeps voluntary tips and service charges or auto-gratuities in two separate columns, because they are not the same thing. ShiftSlip produces records and does arithmetic on them. It is not tax advice, and it does not calculate tax, deductions or refunds. EXPORT IS FREE. ALWAYS. CSV for a spreadsheet, printable PDF for a person, any date range, straight to the share sheet. It is free and behind no purchase - and with no cloud in this version, it is also how you keep a copy. EVERYTHING ELSE IS FREE TOO • Effective hourly, tips per hour and tip percentage on every shift • Weekly, pay-period and monthly totals - weekly, biweekly, semimonthly or monthly cycles • Charts by week, by day of week and by job • Several jobs, for doubles and second jobs, each with its own rate, cycle and rules • An optional check against a minimum wage you enter yourself, so you can see a period worth asking about • A photo of the paper closeout slip attached to the shift, if you want one No feature is locked. No subscription. No trial. WORKS IN THE BACK OF HOUSE Your jobs, shifts, tips, tip-outs and reports are stored only on this iPhone. There is no account, no email sign-up, no cloud and no server, so it works with no signal at 1am and there is nothing to sync, sell or breach. FREE, WITH ADS - AND A WAY OUT ShiftSlip is free and supported by Google AdMob. A banner sits at the bottom of the dashboard, history, reports and jobs screens, and a single full-screen ad can appear on the summary after a shift has already been saved. No ad ever appears while you are entering a shift, splitting a tip-out, reading the daily tip record or exporting. One optional purchase removes all advertising forever, and unlocks nothing, because nothing else is locked. GOOD TO KNOW • iPhone, iOS 17 or later • Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Turkish, Arabic and Chinese • Light and dark, Dynamic Type and VoiceOver supported • Sample data on first run, so you can see it working before typing anything • This version has no notifications, no shift scheduling, no cloud sync, no CSV import and no receipt scanning

Screenshots

Tip Tracker4 screens
ShiftSlip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tip Tracker at none against ShiftSlip's shown. ShiftSlip's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Tip Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and ShiftSlip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tip Tracker ships an update fortnightly, ShiftSlip every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Tip Tracker versus ShiftSlip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTip TrackerShiftSlip
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperForge 9 Labsorlando florez

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Tip Tracker

Subscriptions2
  • Tillside Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Tillside Pro Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Tillside Pro Lifetime$59.99
1 purchases

ShiftSlip

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Tip Tracker free?
Tip Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShiftSlip free?
ShiftSlip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tip Tracker or ShiftSlip have ads?
ShiftSlip shows ads; Tip Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, Tip Tracker or ShiftSlip?
Tip Tracker ships an update fortnightly, and ShiftSlip every 5 days. Most recently, Tip Tracker was updated on October 11, 2026 and ShiftSlip on October 10, 2026.

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